Background:
In October and November 2006, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia concluded national action plans with the European Union in the context of the European Neighborhood Policy. The Action Plans commit all three countries to deeper integration with the EU through approximation of EU standards and through increased access to the single European market. There are a host of common public policy priorities that lend themselves to a regional exchange of ideas and innovative solutions. Moreover, regional cooperation remains an emphatic priority in all three Action Plans.
Goal:
To assist the three countries of the South Caucasus in meeting common ENP Action Plan commitments in the areas of waste management, food standards and safety, and vocational education and to stimulate increased dialogue between governments and NGOs on ENP-related issues.
Impacts:
In June 2006, the Eurasia Foundation’s South Caucasus Cross-Border Programs launched the Stage One of its ENP Civic Dialogue Program. In late 2006, the Programs organized a regional conference and held a series of stakeholder meetings that identified waste management, food standards and safety, and vocational education as the themes that would inform the program’s future activities. The set of activities included a series of policy forums, one on each of the three themes; the development of regional policy reports; and a set of public awareness activities that includes televised and radio programs. The policy forums were organized in the first half of 2007 to set the research agenda for subsequent trilateral policy reports (available for download from the link below).
In 2008, during Stage II of the ENP Civic Dialogue Program, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia have identified pilot projects in each country in waste management, food standards and safety, and vocational education to be based on the recommendations from the three policy reports and from brainstorming sessions with the research consortiums. The projects will be implemented in 2009.
The media component of EPF’s European Neighborhood Policy Civic Dialogue Project includes the development of PSAs and televised documentaries. You can watch these documentaries
here.
Food Standards & Safety Policy Paper (2.16 MBytes)
Vocational Education Policy Paper (3.7 MBytes)
Waste Management Policy Paper (415.21 KBytes)
12 January 2012
Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in cooperation with the European Policy Centre and the Robert Bosch Foundation held international seminar about EU’s role in the South Caucasus in Brussels, Belgium on 14 December 2011.
05 December 2011
Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), in cooperation with the European Policy Centre and the Robert Bosch Foundation, are delighted to invite you to the seminar that will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 14 December 2011.
05 August 2011
Danielle del Marmol, EPF trustee, and François Del Marmol, Consul General of Belgium in Istanbul, hosted “Turkey – Armenia Journalism Award Ceremony” and reception in the framework of Aremania-Turkey Rapprochement Project on July 7, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
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